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Writer, Poet, Novelist
A. M. Klein

About A. M. Klein

Abraham Moses "A. M." Klein (14 February 1909 – 20 August 1972) was a Canadian poet, journalist, novelist, short story writer and lawyer.

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“This is a grassy ghetto, and no home.”
A. M. Klein
“Where are the braves, the faces like autumn fruit,
who stared at the child from the coloured frontispiece?”
“For the tourist's
brown pennies scattered at the old church door,
the ragged papooses jump, and bite the dust.”
“The animals pale, the shine of the fur is lost,
bleached are their living bones.
About them watch
as through a mist, the pious prosperous ghosts.”
A. M. Klein
“And my tears, too, have stained this heirloomed ground,
When reading in these treatises some weird
Miracle, I turned a leaf and found
A white hair fallen from my father's beard.”

About A. M. Klein

Abraham Moses "A. M." Klein (14 February 1909 – 20 August 1972) was a Canadian poet, journalist, novelist, short story writer and lawyer.